I have a Unix Perl program that I've inherited and cannot really change (in that aspect.) It makes use of the backtik with the `date` Unix function. I need to run this program in Windows environment and program stalls when it get to this statement. For now in test, I skip this statement and produce an appropriate string (for 1/1/2000,) but I need to do better. Is there a way to call the Windows (DOS) date routine when I sense I run in Windows (I know how to sense the OS.) If I could do that, I do not need to create the appropriate string after using localtime. Thanks